{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1979/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1979/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1047",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Review) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 8th August 1979\nLaid before Parliament 22nd August 1979\nComing into Operation 12th November 1979\nWhereas by virtue of section 23 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 a direction has been given under section 124 of the Social Security Act 1975 by the Secretary of State for Social Services that the sums mentioned in section 23(1)(b) are to be increased:\nNow therefore the Minister for the Civil Service, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 59 was amended by section 11 of the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The direction is contained in S.I. 1979/993."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1047/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:14:09.512461+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}